Grimbeau

The Pelican’s

Moored quayside;

Newly Clipped

& Trimmed:

Larboard

harboured

barbered

crimped

shrimplines

ripple

A poodle –

Kingsized,

Going

by the

name

Alice…

(plaintive, insistent yell on shoreline, middle-distant)

Doggy-paddles

pristine

past